The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 19, 1934, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIL, NO. 6602. = * JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1934. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS INSULL FREE MAN: ROAMING HIGH SEA INDUSTRIAL CRISIS PENDS IN EAST BREAT STRIKE IS THREATENED AT INDUSTRY xecutives Meeting in New York Today—Demands Are Before Them {RA ADMINISTRATOR WAITS ON SIDE LINES Industrial E}‘es of Nations| Watching Develop- ments of Session NEW YORK, March 19. — Al crisis in motordom, threatening w; hamper the recovery drive, turned of industrial America Lo-=‘ 2 four-man meeting here to-| warning has been given This warnin, the conference room to which| Executive Committee of the| s code authority was sum- the in mone Strike Date Set The strike is set for Wednes- 'AS FIRST LADY STARTED AIR TRIP | EFHANGE TURNS! Plan Succor for Castaways on Arctic Ice Floe ay and unless a sc!l.lcmem_ is .ached one quarter of a million! 1 be affected. | the industrialists are! union demands involving ition .of the American Fed-| on of Labor Unions. ‘\ The men declared many have| cen fired for union activity. The| unions demand reinstatement of the men already discharged for| union activity and also recognition | of the unions Johnson's Suggestion Before the industrialists are also NRA Administrator Johnson’s ten- tative suggestions for peace. so before the executives are suggestions for impartial boards of review of labor’s grievancesand to determine who has the right to; speak for labor. | Grave Situation 1 Gen. Johnson is here which tes-| tifies to the gravity of the situa- tion. He held himself in readiness to offer counsel when asked. With | him, watching the meeting, is E.| P. McGrady, Assistant Secretary of Labor and Assistant to NRA.i Both sides, auto executives and| auto workers are apparently stand-; ing firm in premeeting state- ments. RAIL UNIONS, MANAGERS ARE IN CONFERENGE Extension of Ten Per Cent: Wage Cut Being Ar- gued in Washington WASHINGTON, March 19.—RED-: resentatives of Railroad Brother-| hoods and managers gathered here | today to confer on wage disputes. The latest proposal, made by managers of the railroads, is that the ng ten percent wage cut be ended. The Railrcad Brotherhoods are registering their objections. DEMANDS RENEWED WASHINGTON, March 19—Rail- way managers this afternoon re- newed a demand on the employees for a 15 percent reduction in ba- sic wages effective July 1. Pre- viously the managers proposed the present ten percent cut be con- tinued until April 1, next year, to which the workers flatly refused. ——————————— GOTTON BILL PASSES HOUSE WASHINGTON, March 19.—The Bankhead compulsory cotton con- trol bill has been passed by the House. The bill, which now goes to the Senate, is designed to stab- ilize cotton prices, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt is shown above at the air base in Miami, Fla., as she boarded a plane for her ocean flight to Puerto Rico where she was to investigate reports of poverty. It was the first ocean air trip made by a President’s wife. She is wa who saw her off. (Associated Press Photo) DOWN GERMAN ARMS PROPOSAL I ) To Grant Rearmament | Would Acknowledge Ab- rogation Postwar Treaty PARIS, March 19.—France last | Saturday night rejected the latest| German proposals on disarma- ! i ment and made it clear in a note to Great Britain she refuses to | disarm in the face of “Germany’s | rearmament.” ; The French communication,; | which was unanimously approved; by Premier Doumergue’s Cabinet,| {is to be presented to London to- lday. It demands as a condition] 1of reduction of France's forces,;} jguarantees of security, chiefly from | | England, but that Germany not be allowed to increase m'mnmentf above levels' fixed in the postwar{ | Versailles treaty. The French note declared that | both Great Britain and Italy have recognized this point | The communication brought ! | forth the immediate contention | | there has been no change whatever | {in the German arms attitude and that no progress has been made in months of negotiations Th«-1 French note said that to grant| | Germany rearmament would be of- ficial acknowledgement the Ver sailles treaty no longer in | force. | is NEW CONQUESTS ing to a party of friends CHINA ISSUES | STATEMENT UN \Large Armed Forces SILVER POLICY Intends to Defend Own Currency—Trade with U. S. Is Again Seen SHANGHAI, March 19.—(Copy- right by the Associated Press) The Government made it clear to- day that although it approved the London silver agreement it does not intend to allow the pact to prevent full protection to the Chinese international trade. At the same time officials and trade experts said President R00S- depreciation of the Ameri- can dollar would probably cause a large increase in the CXnese- American business but if the Unit- ed States raises. the price of the white metal the Chinese govern- ment feels free to take measures necessary to protect her own sit- uation but feels siiver boosting by the United States is merely talk. American products, from rail- road engines to face powder and pins, are popular with the Chinese, but when the United States dollar | went to a high value in relation to other currencies, the Chine: of neces. turned to other ma: kets. With a 59 cent dollar, Chinese money again has a favorable rat- ing, with the consequent return of the Chinese to American mar- kets. TO STUDY SITUATION WASHINGTON, Ma: 19—Pres- ident Roosevelt is sending Prof. Robers, money expert, to study the silver situation. Meanwhile, Speaker Rainey, at the request of President Roose- velt, has called off House action on the Feisinger bill for the pur- chase of one billion and a half ounces of silver. The vote on another bill is going through, however. This al- lows payment in silver for pur- chases by foreign countries in the United States. R Deaths from influenza during 1933 were nearly twice as many in London and the great towns of England and Wales as in 1932, the total being 11434 compared with 5,732, »| mediately. to China} ARE OUTLINED | Declares Underworld | Of America Has ! [Sixty -year Internal, Ex—l | ternal Expansion Pro- ! I gram Explained ‘ WASHINGTON, March 19.— Attorney General Cummings caid today America’s under- world has more armed men | than the Army and Navy | cembined. | The Attorney General ‘made | ROME, March 19—A sixty-year |program of internal and external expansion which in the Twent: first Century will give Italy prim- acy in the world, was outlined| yesterday by Premier Mussolini in a cpeech to 5000 Chief Fascists of | the Kingdom. | the statement before the Sen- | ate Judiciary Committee as it | began consideration of bills | submitted by the Justice De- partment to aid the Govern- ment to war on gangsters. - I not | He declared that Italy had no |territory but to a natural expan- sion, t “We demand that nations which ' to Be Pumped Into Busi- |Foshay and Henley Must ness by Government |Surrender Within Thirty WASHINGTON, March 19 __Il)a_vs and Go to Prison | Circuit Court of Appeals to the The bills as introduced would |€ffect that W. B. Foshay and |form system ba power to| H. H. Henley must surrender at $140,000000 and empowered to|fused to review their case after borrow several times this amount. }lh(‘ Circuit Court of Appcals had sl | upheld their sentences following {future in the West and North, but sEvEI.T ASKS;‘%;ders oppportunities lie in the {East nad South, in Asia and in| | Atrica where vast resources must be valorized. The Premier explain- |ed he did not refer to conquest HELP INDUSTRIES have already arrived in Africa do PN block at every step Italian| A . -, | expansion,” said the Premier. Billions of Dollars in Credit| g 2 President Roosevelt today recom= . mended to Congress the creation| ST. PAUL, Minn, March 19— of ' twelve credit banks 70 supply The Federal District Court said additional capital for industry im-|he has received orders from the pump billions of dollars of GO‘._:wuhm 30 days and begin serving | ernment, credit into pr th 3 terms in Leavenworth pen- each Federal Reser " e rict to have a bank capitalized The Supreme Court recently r | conviction on charges of using the mails to defraud previous to the collapse -of the Foshay enterprises. !Grand Igloo Delegates Gathering at Anchorage utilities ARCTIC OCe,n %2 Aoy Marconed on a drfting ice floe since their ship, the Chelyuskin, was crushed by ice and found- ered cn February 13, 89 Russian castaways are awaiting resc in the fri Arcti 200 miles west of Point Hope, Alaska, and 400 miles from Neme. Two Soviet al en will be in Juneau tomorrow abeard the steamer Alaska, enroute to the Arctic to engage in the rescue work. The fliers here Commander Mauritz pnev, who found the frozen bedies of Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland, American fliers, in Siberia four years ago, and Sigmund Levenevsky, whe flew Jimmy Mattern from Siberia to Nome after end of the American’s globe-cireling attempt last y: The third member of the party is Prof. George A. Ushabov, former Commandant at Wrangel ILiand whose knowledge of Arctic flying conditions is said to be second t0 none. Under instructions from Soviet Ambaader Alexander Treyanovsky, in Washington, D. C., the rescue party will go tc S rd aboard the Alaska, by rail to Fairbanks, then charter a plane to Nome from where they will cperate. There 101 members in the ice party but Pilot Liapidevsky rescued ten women and two children, one a baby born in the Ar 5 ow the Russian flier is himself reported missing. Juan T. Trippe, President of the Pan-American Airways has offered all the facilities of the company’s Alaska branch. rele, are were RESCUE WORK GAINS NEW MOMENTUM MOSCOW, March 19.—By land and sea, the Soviet Government’s operations gained new momentum one month's supply of food and fuel. Two specially-equipped airplanes are enroute to Cape Wellen, Siberia, in an attempt to rescue the men with another expected to hop from the Cape scon. Seven light planes have been unloaded from a steamer in Olutorsk Bay and are expected to hop for Cape Wellen via Providence Bay Tuesday A dog team base has been established at Cape Onman and the icebreaker Krassin is scheduled to soon. Leningrad will aid in rescue efforts with two small semi-rigid dirigibles rail to Vladivostok to be used if other methods fail. Meanwhile three Russians are Fairbanks and Nome, Alaska, to attempt the rescue. A radio communication from the marooned men was intercepted last Saturday and the position was being given when static interferred and communication was lost ‘B Y M u s s 0 L I'N I‘ in the rescue of 89 members of an expedition stranded on an ice floe in Bering Sea and facing less than | not being required to tell where he | sail which have been enroute to Se sent by ard, then STOCK PRICES DIMOND ASKING TAKE ANOTHER |~ ALASKA'S SHARE the marconed Bering Sea par- ty, has been located, safe and well at Cape Vankaren. He was forced down on account of engine trouble, e Russian Air Hero, Missing in Arctic, ‘ Reported Safe | | Labor Situation Has De- {Delegate Introduces Bill to Bring Territory Under pressed Influence— Federal Highway Act Trading Is Dull { NEW YORK, March 19 V'nm-c‘ARMY PLANES | WASHINGTON, March i9—Dele- were more fears than hopes on| {gate Anthony J. Dimond of Al- |aska today introduced a bill to ex- FLYING nvEH | tend the provisions of the Federal highway act to Alaska, asking that ElGHT RUUTES certain modifications in Federal the stock market today and prices | went down through the session. | o . . [ Mail Again Being Trans- ported by Air—Safety The labor situation was the most | depressing influence. Tride was First Is Order mostly dull and there were net de- clines of one to around two points. | Sales were 1,500,000 sk Deéclines were prominent on the | curb. A weakness in German government issues featured the bond trading. nition ling standard roads which would be encountered in the North. He pointed out that Alaska would have received $10,000,000 from the Public Highway fund last year had it been under the act Dimond said the passage of his bill would be another large ste) jtoward cor uction of Alas | portion of the proposed Int | tional highway from Seattle to { Fairbank: Auto Strike Worries Traders stood aside waiting result of the meeting here on the impending - strike in the auto in-| dusiry. Some move is e i to | t the ¢ the | 1t the WASHINGTON, March 19.—Ma laden Army planes n zoome over a skeletonized system of air- vays with safety the first order of the day. y D (Continued on P:g» Sev | | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 19. | —Delegates arrived yesterday by train, ship and plane for the ] Fourteenth Annual convention of |the Grand Igloo of Pioneers of ‘Alaska which opens here today. {New Norwegian Minister | Is Sent to Washington | OSLO, March 19. — Wilhelm | Morgenstierne, Consu! General of |Norway in New York, has been|Roy Cohen, author declares. |px-omomcl to Minister to Washing-| Cohen said he spoke as one who jton, succeeding Halvard H. Bachke,lplays a pretty good game of con- Itransferred to Paris, tyact and likes it very much, but NEW YORK, March 19.—All the pleasant social life in small towns and cities in the United States have been snuffed out by the craze of contract bridge, Octavus { Declares Contract Bridg; Has Snuffed Out Pleasant -‘ Social Life in U.S. Towns |of fishing and ten hours of bridg Eight routes are covered as fol- lows: ARMY DFFICER 2 New York to Chicago. Chicago to San Francisco. Boston to New York. Chicago to Dallas. Salt Lake to San Diego. Salt Lake to Seattle. Cheyenne to Denver. <‘ CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 19.— | Lieut. H. G. Richardson, of Ch enne, making a test ht in c I resent having to play it but| New York to Atlanta and Jack-|nection with the my mail you can't have any social contact |sonville |service, was killed when his plane unless you are a pretty good bridge| The War Department is waiting|fell 1000 feet last Saturday af- player. Even when men go on|for the report of the Board of|ternoon. The plane was burned. fishing trips it means two. hours|Inquiry in the crash that took the| Lieut. Richardson was a mem- ye, |life of Lieut. H. G. Richardson, at »n | Cheyenne last Saturday, making 1y |eleven army deaths in army mal 3 |carrying or in prepgrations. I think it is a shame a should go drunk on what is nail Corps and formerly a co-pilot with e United Airlines. His widow survives, J | WANTED MAN IS RELEASED FROM GREECE Former Chicago Utility Magnate Allowed to Leave on Ship IS NOT TURNED OVER TO U. S. AUTHORITIES ils ReportedTO—Be on Way to Abyssinia—Pulls His Trump Trick PIRAEUS, Greece, (Copyrighted by the Associated Pres -Samuel Insull pulled an- |other ace from his sleeve late last and has sailed for a unknown aboard the grimy tramp steamer Maiotis which |he made virtually a kingdom of his own, after being ordered back by the Greek Government. The Maiotis salied again, after first 75-hour false start, with- cut being required to tell the Greek Government where it was going as the chartered ship of the utili- | ties executive, wanted for trial in Chicago in connection with the col- |1apse of his enterprises. He is the lone arbiter of his destinies as long as he remains on the high seas. March 19.— specifications be granted in recog-| of the handicaps in build- | " KILLED, CRASH ber of the Army Reserve Officers| Greek port officials made only ;om’- demand, that he wireless where {he 1s going to land and also that Ihe enter no Greek ports. | Where To widely reported Insull is or “somewhere east of the probably Abyssinia but he ly gained a trump trick by | 1t is {headed f | Suez” i obviot was going. | Physicians went aboard the |Maiotis and examined Insull again during his six-hour stay in port |and certified the fugitive was in |good health despite a reported |heart attack earlier in the day |when it was discovered he was be- ing returned to Greece. | The captain of the Maiotis de- !nied Insull had been on a “hunger ismku s | Did Not Leave Ship | Insull did not leave the steamer land no United States officials were |allowed aboard, if any attempted {1t despite advices from Athens that {Insull would be turned over to his “home police.” Mrs. Insull bade her husband goodbye and returned to Athens. It is not known when she will join her husband . She is expected to go to France tomorrow or Wednesday. } | | ! KIDNAP RUMORS ATHENS, March 19.—Rumor that Samuel Insull is at the mercy of | Bangsters who slipped aboard his {freighter when in a Grecian port last Saturday, aroused excitement. | It is said the gangsters intended |to kidnap Insull and hold him for® |ransom in Cretan caves or nearby | islands. | Commenting on wildest of all sensational stories |of his most recent escape, the police denied any kidnapers could |have boarded the Greek tramp steamer while it was in port. - this latest and Dates When Ice Went Out 4t Nenana | Many Juneauites are already placing their guesses as to when |the ice will move at Nenana. Here- | with are previous dates: ‘ 1917—April 30 at 11:30 am. 1918—May 11'at 9:33 am. | 1919—May 3 at 2:33 pm. 1920—May 11 at 10:46 am. | 1921—May 11 at 6:42 am. | 1922—May 12 at 1:20 pm. | 1923—May 9 at 2 p.m. 1924—May 11 at 3:10 p.m. 19: May 7 at 6:32 pm. | 1926—April 26 at 4:03 pm. | 1927—May 13 at 5:42 am. 1928—May 6 at 4:24 p.m. | 1929—May 5 at 3:41 pm, | 1930—May 8 at 7:03 p.m. | 1931—May 10 at 9:23 am. 1932—May 1 at 10:15 am. | 1933-—-May 8 at 7:20 p.m. 1034— 2}