The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 20, 1934, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICETEN CENTS PRESIDENT ENTERS STRIKE CRISI SENATOR’S DAUGHTER MARRIE CONFERENCE OF 870 AND LABOR MEN IS CALLED Roosevelt Invites Both Em-| ployers and Employees to Meet Him ASKS POSTPONEMENT OF BIG WALK OUT Chief Executive Also Re- quests Rail Heads and Men to Settle | \ WASHINGTON, March 20.| —President Roosevelt has| stepped into the auto and rail| labor disputes. | This afterncon he invited| the spokesmen of the auto; employers and employees to: Lieut. Lynn C. Petross of Springdale, Ark., and his bride, the former Kathryn Caroline Robinson daughter of Senator and Mrs. hArih;n'Rc:- alk things over with him at| inson of Indiana, are shown after their wedding in the chapel of the talk 1}1."32“ na g | naval academy at Annapolis. They will live in San Diego, Cal. (Asso- the White House tomorrow| cjated Press Phots) and further asked for a post-{u,, bt i W ponement of the strike sched-| | HOWLING MOB quick understanding on wages | cent increase in the present| Dowager Queen Emma Passes Away Today THE HAGUE, March 20.— Dowager Queen Emma, aged 75 years, beloved for her chari- jes and honcred alike by Hol- land’s rich and poor, died here taday as the result of bron- chitis. The Dowager Queen had been gravely ill for only a few days although she has suffered In addition, the President again a six months’ extension | gave a warning to the rai]; and labor executives and em- ployees they should reach al! of the existing wage agree—lH“r{d"Eds T"y to Capture ment. Earlier in the day the| Eight Stavisky Scan- employees demanded a 20 puri dal Prisoners ELECTION BILL PASSES SENATE TODAY, SENT T 'WHITE HOUSE Voting Will Be on Second Tuesday in September —Legislature to Meet in Jan. | WASHINGTON, March 20. |—The Senate has passed and| {sent to the White House for the signature of the Presi- | dent, the bill setting the sec-| ‘ond Tuesday in September) | this year, and the same date ' every second year thereafter, |as dates for the election to |the Territorial Legislature {and for Delegate to Congre: The Legislature is required | convene, under the sec- |tions of the bill, on the sec- ‘innd Monday in January next as hostages to avoid gunfire by CONFESSION IN SPY RING 1S CLAIMED to | yvear and the same day every two years thereafter. |Board shall consist of the Governor, Secretary of Alas- ika and Collector of Customs of Aiaska. 7 MEMBERS OF Reported to Have Talk- ed After Grilling PARIS, Mareh 20.—What offic- ials described as a full confession of whatever part they played in the widespread spy ring was made in a seven hour grilling of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Goldon Switz, young Americans, THheir alleged confes- sions HERE’S AN ACTION PICTURE OF DA | The Territorial Canvassing|Young American Couple| BYRD'S PARTY PARIS, March 20—Hundreds of| “ith bronchitis for some time. brought the announcement uled for tomorrow. MAKES ATTACK, in public interest, proposing wages effective July 1. The! that 15 others will be arrested. This remarkable news picture shows a street corner scene at Sioux Falls, S. D)., when a machine gun- ner held a policeman and bystander at bay while confederates robbed the Secutity National Bank and Trust company of $46,000 in cash. Arrow indicates scene of his action. townspeople at bay, wounded a policeman and forced five persons to accompany them fo: some distance pursuers. (Associated Press Photo) Named As U. S. Judge KOTA BANK HOLDUP = ] S MUST BE SENT 70 SENATE ON 2 AMENDMENTS |Changes Are Slight, How- ever, and Only Slight Delay Expected REPEALS ALASKA BONE DRY AND FEDERAL ACT Liquor Board Unable to Act, However, Until Finally Approved The National House of Rep- resentatives today passed the Senate bill to repeal Prohibi- tion laws in Alaska, accord- ing to an Asscciated Press | news dispatch from Washing- {ton received by The Empire. As the bill was amended in two minor particulars by the House it now goes back to : the Senate for approval. ‘I Both of the amendments ; { were made at the suggestion of Attorney General Homer | REPURTED Nuw S. Cummings. It is not be- | lieved that there will be any TO BE IN GALE delay in the Senate’s agree- | ment to them. The bill gives Noted Fugitive May Have 3Alasku the right to handle {the liquor traffic through the | Another Heart Attack on Briny Deep The robbers held hundreds of Legislature. Both Local and National The bill repeals in its entirety {the Alaska Bone Dry Law, which ATHENS, March 20.—According has been on the statute books to a radio, a raging Mediterranean nce January 1, 1918, This section storm endangers the life of Sam-(of the Senate bill was not changed uel Insull, it is feared and the by the House. most noted of present day fhgitives| It also repeals the National Pro- from justice is near a callapse'hibition Act, except in two respects. with another heart attack on his The Senate bill repealed it en- |tramp steamer Maiotis. tirely. However, at the suggestion The Maiotis is believed to belof Mr. Cummings, the House left |shouting persons smashed the po- | Switz and his young wife are | well off the coast cruising a zig-|in effect Title IIT and Title II of { » ' , #strike rail managers had proposed|iice lines today in an effort to accused of telling French secrets an additional five per cent slash to the present ten per cent cut already in effect. | capture eight Stavisky scandal pris- oners on their way to jail from Bayonne but the police retained | the prisoners. | WADOO'S SON | ARE MAROONED |Pilot Bowlin, Wireless Op- to Russia and Germany. EXTENSIVE PLOT | zag course while Insull is seeking a haven from grand larceny and embezzlements charges in Chicago. FUGITIVE'S PLANS the Act. He pointed out that with Title III repealed no “supply of denatured and tax-free alcohol can be shipped into Alaska because such alcohol can be withdrawn and The White House awaited, s WASHINGTON, March 20.—De- spite the Administration’s indif- Son of—P esident Has ‘ His Appendix Taken Out ‘WASHINGTON, March 20. WASHINGTON, March 20—Sec- John Roosevelt, 18-year-old son of retary Wallace has named J. N. the President, is in a good con- (Ding) Darling, newspaper cartoon- dition after an appendieitis oper- ist of Des Moines, Iowa, as Chief ation. of the Bureau of Biological Survey. Cartoonist “Ding” Is Named Chief of Biological Survey The prisoners were being brought SPENDS NIGHT’ a reply from the auto an(likom Bayonne where Serge_ SLax'Lsky. 3 ; + lorgamzed a pawnshop which luxlou’ labor leaders who had ad-|with a loss of $40,000,000 to the| 3 Meanwhile a commission has _ ing to co e, | g to.come here . [moved to investigate. It has be-| The Presiden+t has laid|come known that Legislators are| Two Charges Are Brought censing power of NRA w‘:h'al Stavisky took his own life to| A |avert arrest. Dress Model seek peace by conciliation. | R P il GREAT STRIKE LOOMS !cuN NEW YORK, March 20. A: morning separated the auto manu- | ended in a $50,000 damage suit, facturers and the American Fed-] calls it a ohldup game. Summons eration of Labor with what union {in the case was served as he left in_ history” looming less than 2¢ Mining Promoter Must night in jai. hours away. | S F Y | McAdco, Jr., had been in court NRA Administrator Johnson di- | erve Four Years on |y a blonde dress model, Miss vent the major convulsion from re- | fnrderly conduct charge brought by tarding the march toward recovery.: SEATTLE, March 20—Conrad Mrs. Lillian Knesz, proprietor of turned to Washington 10 | Wolfe, aged 62 years, mining pro- the Hungdrian Inn where McAdoo (Continued on Page Eight) Island penitentiary to serve four| The disorderly conduct charge P |years for fraudulent use of the;Was settled when Mrs. Knesz drop- |mails in connection with the sale Ped it jor $650, but the damage Company of Hyder, Alaska. Higher aPusive, after presenting the check courts affirmed Wolfe's convic-|{id Payment for the meal R i Sirike Scheduled for Fri-| ors Are at Work |ference, the House has passed the 3ty 9 Ao silver remonetization farm relief SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, March 20 fforts to prevent the proposed | Government has filed a suit seek- two thirds vote required. 3 ing an injunction to restrain the| The bill says silver must be ac- cific Coast cammuedltpdw W_ibh Weirton Steel Company from vio- cepted at a premium above the Federal a\d State officials acting as ms’dxai;s and are meeting with {section of NRA charging this is|cultural commodities in which a “violating the code for fair compe-'surplus exists. Internatonal Longshoremen’s As-|tion for the iron and steel indus- societion which conducted the vote, and the Waterfront The principal point of dispute ?ppea.rs to be tye demand of the longshoremen for a closed shop Attorney ha’s been asked to make a ruling. The strike is scheduled for 8 journed the New York meet-|investors. aside the drastic club of li<|beginning to doubt the police story | . . ! Against Him and Blonde chasm, distinctly ominous, ‘this | UFF Tu PRISUN!mgm dinner in a Yorkville cafe leaders call the “greatest strike | ia Harlem court after spending the rected a last minute fight to pre- | Mail Fraud {Sara Lummus, to answer to a dis- moter, has been taken to McNeil|#d the model had dined. PAG'FIG GUAST of stock in the Canto Mining charge resulted when he became tion. | day Morning—Mediat- WASHINGTON, March 20—The bill by a majority well over the strike of longshoremen on the Pa- lating the collective bargaining world price in exchange for agri- the distri/t representatives of the try.” Employers Union officials. agreement api the United States o'clock next Friday morning. | | RAD WUI.FE ‘} NEW YORK, March 20.—William | Gibbs McAdoo, Jr., whose Sunday | PARIS, March 20. Spying against the United States, France and Great Britain is charged by the police in a widespread plot they said that finally has been revealed through the testimony of the Switz’s, two American prisoners. Investigators declared that Ger- many and Russia were the bene- ficiaries in what they described as a vast international espionage syndicate. erator Bailey, Forced Down in Storm LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica, March 20. — Rescue expeditions awaited a break in the weather which will permit them to go to the aid of two Byrd Expedition members isolated after being forced down in an airplane landing on an uncharted ice field. | The isolated members are Pilot | William Bowlin and Wireless Op- erator Clay Bailey. The two members of the ex- pedition were forced down in a storm while making a flight. |Philippine Islands 3 Independence Bill Passed by House OPERATED IN NEW YORK PARIS, March 20.—Magistrate Andre Benon declared that the dis- closures made by the Swits showed an international spy gang oper- ated in New York City. They were sent here by the heads of the ring in the United States, the Magistrate said. GOVERNMENT 18 T0 BUILD | | WASHINGTON, March 20.—The |House has passed and sent to the |Senate the bill for Independence {of the Philippine Islands. INew Pan-American |Flag Approved |By Nine States Attempt Will Be Made to Take Some Profit Out of War Equipment WASHINGTON, March 20.—Con- MONTEVIDEO, March 20.—Ap-' proval by tne Pan-American con- | ference of the “flag of the Ameri- ‘cas,” already adopted by Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Chile, Boli- via, Ecuador, Colombia and Peru,|8'¢s5 has received word the Ad- has given impetus to the Umguay_‘mmmrauon plans to experiment an objective of a PansAmerican|With building its own naval air- emblem. |eraft to see if it can take some The flag, white for peace, bears“"f the profit out of war equip- three purple crosses, for the cara- Ment. i vels of Colombus. Behind the| AS the conferees discussed the largest center cross, which honors half billion dollar naval construc- Columbus himself, is the crest of | to% bill, and attempted to adjust an Inca sun. The four symbols|SOMe of the differences beiween also stand for justice, peace, umon\""_e House and Senate, a compro- and fraternity. [Tt e i, Whereby nop tews The flag w: | than percent or more than 1.- Camblor, in xafm‘;iixf,d a:’;y“‘;f;f‘uoo airplanes aothorized in the bill [tain. It was unfurled first in S8l be constructed at Govern- Montevideo on Columbus Day in|™eRt Plants ‘Dancing in Spokane , ! to Stop at Midnight | W. J. Manahan, Traffic Manager for the Northland Transportation <‘SPOKANE, Wash, March 20— Company, arrived on the Alaska The City Council has ordered that from Ketchikan and will spend the public dancing must hereafter cease next few days in Juneau on busi- at midnight Saturdays. One am., ness for his company. |has been the deadline. -t MANAEAN ARRIVES OWN PLANES J Miss Florence Allen of Cleveland, a member of the Ohio supreme court, was nominated by President Roosevelt for judgeship In the Unit- ed States circult court of appeals at Cincinnatl. She will be the sec- ond woman in the natlon's history to occupy a federal court bench. (Associated Press Photo) UNITED STATES WATCHES JAPAN N CHINA CASE American Legation atPeip- ing Takes Action in Latest Move PEIPING, March 20.—The United States Legation has taken a hand |in Japanese inquiries concerning American mission properties in North China which have aroused apprehension concerning the safety | of Peiping. American missionaries in ‘Clmm were informed by the lega- | tion that if any Japanese agents | come asking details about mission properties, the missionaries were to send questioners to the legation, the situation would be lwhere handled. mysterious actions of the Japanese agents have stirred both | Chinese and foreign circles with the fear that North China is to be the scene of new ventures of the Japanese war machine, Detailed Inventory Made The fears were heightened by emergency reports that the ques- tioner was making a detailed in- ventory, with maps, of Chinese Government buildings and proper- ties in Pieping, including “the For- bidden City.” The Japanese agent, going by the | name of Araki, represented himself as “a diplomatic agent attached to the Japanese Army at Tientsin." The legation indicated that no Japanese agent had been to see them. Legation attaches said the Japanese Army had not informed |them of Araki's presence or pur-| | (Continued on Page Seven) North | ATHENS, March 20—sSamuel In-|shipped only under permit, and sull plans to return to the United|Wwith Title III repealed there will States after the present excitement |be no authority for the issuance of his case dies down and live in|Of such permits in Alaska.” Title America peacefully for the rest o{l‘n merely relates to such permits his life. and contains other provisions deem- This information was given ong:ed as essential to enforce Title III, |today to the Associated Press by|At his suggestion, therefore, both one of the fugitive’s Greek attor-|titles mentioned were retained in 'neys. The attorney said he was' effect, but all of the remaining |in" constant communication with!portions of the National Prohibition |Insull by radio but his destination|Act repealed. for the present remained a mys-| These amendments the Senate tery. {will be asked to agree to. Since | Mrs. Insull is here and main- it passed the original repealer Decision Is Expected to Be Made This Week by Administration WASHINGTON, March 20. — | There are some signs that aviation | companies who lost their air mail | contracts may be given a hearing.| Administration experts will make a decision before the end of the week Postmaster General James A .Far- Spring arrives tonight about 10:26 o’clock, according to all mathematical figuring. Tomor- row will therefore be the first | day of spring and winter, to all purposes, should be in the background for a few months at least. taining close touch with her hus- Without debate, no fear is felt band by a special code. She will| that it will reject the House leave for Paris next Saturday, then amendments. go to Londof Board Not Functioning | B = o S SR, However, until agreement is | jreached and the measure approved | by President Roosevelt, the Liquor AI 0 | Control Board created by the Leg- | islature last Spring cannot function | since it does not come into exist- | MAY BE HEARD | ence until the repeal bill becomes | a law. The Board will be com- posed of Gov. John W. Troy, Chair- | ,man; Frank A. Boyle, Auditor; | 1 (Continued on Page Two) i — -, | News that President Has Intervened in Labor ley said today. About one dozen companies will be heard. Col Troubles Helps Trade Charles A. Lindbergh has been a consistent exponent of the plan the! NEW YORK, March 20—Stocks companies should be given a hear- rallied briskly in the final hour ng. this afternoon following the news | that President Roosevelt had in=- | | tervened in the threatened motor o o {and railway strikes. -sl)"f’fl' A"'r“{e“ All categories quickly turned In This Section | about after having registered mod- - 5 | erate losses. Closing gains ranged During Tonight |from one to two or more pa::u !Total sales for the day were 1,- {600,000 shares. Exireme advances were shaded in the last minute by profit tak- ing but ettivity dwindled under the realizing. Hopes of an early settlement of labor troubles were (Continued on Page Two)