The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 27, 1934, Page 1

A THE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ALASKA EMPIRE Ol XLIII., NO 6609 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS VETERANS' BILL IS VETOED; CHIEF EXECUTIVE ACTS House Late Today Over-‘ rides Veto While Sub- stitute Planned BULLETIN — WASHING-' TON. March 27.—The House, late today, overrides the vet- erans’ veto of President Rooseveli. The Senate has not acted yet. s | MEASURE VETOED i WASHINGTON, March 27. —President Roosevelt vetoed Independent Offices bill today because it carried in- creased allowances for vet-| erans and Government work- ers exceeding his budget. | Meanwhile a substitute for| the House bonus bill propos-| the ing a compromise between | cash payment of the face value and bonus certificates| and cashing at the present| loan value was introduced by | Senator Pittman. | The Independent Offices bill was sent to the White| House late yesterday after- noon. i g o v gl TRADE TREATY ADVANGED FOR JAPAN AND U. 8. Suggestion Also Mide for Multiple Pact, Latin- ipermit of immediate bidding Still Good Fnends, But Seeks Divorce | ( | | | N s & Saying they still are good friends, Laura LaPlante, movie actress, an. | nounced in London that she had filed suit for divorce from William Seiter, film director, in Riga, Lat via. (Associated Press Photol) AIR MAILS TO BE GIVEN BACK PRIVATE LINES BULLETIN — WASHING-| TON, March 27. — President Roosevelt announced late this afternoon he intends to {held-up a freight terminal escap- ‘Roosevelt {Chicago Agency of l_loyds|i GUNMEN STAGE FOUND FROZEN HOLD-UP; LOOT TO DEATH ON IS WORTHLESS ~ ALASKA TRAIL Gang s Believed to Have. Been Led by Fugitive Desperado Dillinger Harry Olsen Succumbs Near Dutch Harbor After | Harrowing Experience | DETROIT, Mich, March 27.—| DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska, Mar. Six gunmen who the police be-127—A hard but losing fight lieve were led by John Dlllmu-‘ln!aamnst sickness and weather has fugitive desperado, held up two em- been revealed by the finding of poyees of the Grand Trunk West- ern Railroad Freight Terminal and | escaped with $28,000 in checks, worthless, as loot and escaped in; the frozen body of Harry Olsen, Dutch Harbor fisherman and trap- per, by a searching party on the trail between hé¢re and Makushin. an automobile. Olsen, wintering in Kashego, contracted pneumonia last Febru- SEARCH FOR DILLINGER ary. Unable to leave his bunk, CHICAGO, Il March 27.—John|he managed to reach a case of Dillinger, fugitive desperado, is|canned milk and lived on this milk being hunted in two different lo-|for three weeks.. He partly re- calities today. | covered, packed his seabag and From California comes the re-|then rowed nearly 30 miles to port that he has been seen In San Makushin, where he lost his boat. Bernandino. A garage man claims| Against the advice of a trader Dillinger and two companions were | there, Olsen attempted to hike the in an auto and three autom'mcs!mmcr trail to Dutch Harbor. were in the seat beside Dillinger. | Searchers found his frozen body | From Detroit comes the report; where he had sat down dpparently the officers are looking for him | to rest during a xwxm there as the leader of a gang that | 1S STRUCK OIL FIRMS IN CAL Al More Indnctments Return- ed—Charges Violation Competition Codes Insurance Is Offered Offers Rare Policy SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, March| to Investors {27—The United States Govern-| |ment aimed another blow yester-| _ CHICAGO, I, March 27-—A“‘day at alleged unfair practices of | insurance policy which will pay oil companies when the Federal| any loss on investments in event;Grand Jury returned two addi- Roosevelt “ceased to be President” during the year of contract, has tional indictments charging viola- tions of the code for fair compe- FIRST LADY HOME FOR WEDDING ANNIVERSARY MEASURE MUST EE SENT BACK FOR AMENDMENT President Withholds 'Ap- proval Because of Un- | constitutional Clause DIMOND INTRODUCES " RECALL RESOLUTION | Takes PrompTStep to Rec- I tify Error—No Approv- | al Before Week End Presi dent Roosevelt has withheld his signature from !the Alaska Porhibition repeal ihill because of a clause con- tained therein declared to {make the entire law uncon- This excellent closeup of the President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt was taken when the First Lady returned to Washington from her trip to the West Indies, just in time to attend the family dinner celebrating the famous couple’s twenty-ninth wedding anniversary. The President met Mrs. Roosevelt at the station, and they are shown as they started lor the White House, (Associated Press Photo) derolls, E mploymefit Show Gains; Bank I ncreasm g, FRENCH POLICE MAKING RAIDS ON REVOLTERS |Seize All Sorts of Weapons| in Anticipation of Civil War | by private lines for the air| | mail service and turn ail mail — transportation over to them (Copyright by Associated Press).—|,q goon as possible. Methods| Negotiation for a trade agreement cuaranteeing continued free entry fCr returning the mail to pri-| of Japanese silk into the United vate lines was Wllhllold States and American cotton mto‘ American Countries TOKYO, Japan, March 27. Japan is urged by Saburo Kurusu, ! Chief of the Commercial Bureau Df the Foreign Office. At the same time Kurusu sug- gested the two nations study the possibility of a multiple aweemem | been offered in the United Statestition. | by underwriters of Lloyds in Lon- The Shell Company and the} PARIS, March 27.—The French don. |Guardian Oil Company, which is|police are smashing at political The Chicago agency of Lloyds, charged with being controlled by |factions which they say are arm- today quoted Roosevelt insurance as $50 a thousand. The rate is nearly as low as ordinary life in-| surance, indicating insurance men | felt the hazard was small. Insurance men said this form ' of insurance is rarely offered in an| American event although it is common abroad. ——eo>——— |the Shell Company, are named in | previous ing themselves against the Gov- ernment. In a widespread series of raids through Paris and the suburbs, the pelice have collected hundreds of rifles, pistols, @ huge stock of am- one bill, Second Bill William C. McDuffie, receiver m‘ equxty for the Richfield Oil Com- pany, and its alleged subsidiary the Rocket Oil Company, is named | munition, swords and bayonets. in the second indictment. The raiders searched for evi- The charges are similar to the|dence of extremist groups of the indictments, the com-|Right and Left political parties panies being charged with cutting|believed arming in anticipation of ,losses were halved. with Latin-American countries to| aid in balancing commercial ac-| counts and help expend forengn business by a three- wey agreement, y STOCKS RALLY BUT SLIGHTLY AFTER SLUMP NEW YORK, harch 27—8'.0(:!(! rallied quietly today after leaders dropped one to around four points in an earlier selling rush. The de- | cline followed news that the Presi-| dent wanted a regulatory bill on| stock exchanges “with teeth in it.”| Today’s close was heavy. Sales totalled 1,600,000. Liquidation dried up after the| first half hour rush and recoveries} ruled tpereafter. The most extreme | Wheat fell with equities but also got back some of the declines. Bonds were irregularly lower. United States Industrial Alcohol and Commercial Solvents were off | one to three points. | Other issues down one to more than two points included Chrysler, General Motors, Auburn, Kelvinator, Sears-Roebuck, Mont- gomery-Ward, Allied Chemical, Am- erican Telephone and Telegraph, Bethlehem Steel, United States Steel, Western Union, American Smelting, United Smelting and De- pasco. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, March 27.—Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 20, American Can 97, American Power and Light 8%, Anaconda 14%, Armour B 2%, Bethlehem Steel 39%, Calumet and Hecla 4%, Curtiss-Wright 4%, Fox Films 14%, General Motors 36%, International Harvester 40%, Ken- necott 18', Packard Motors 5%, | settlement. Nash, | were the same. {Pretend Marriage Southern Railway 30%, Ulen Com- pany 3, United Aircraft 22%, Unit. ed States Steel 49%. IS TO ADJUST AUTO DISPUTE President to Name Neutral| Member—Rail Workers to See Roosevelt WASHINGTON March 27.—Ap- pointment of a three-man board to settle disputes in the auto in- dustry waited the selection of a neutral member by President | Roosevelt. This neutral member will be named sometime today. Rail labor leaders planned to visit President Roosevelt and rei- terate the request that the ten per cent pay cut be restored July 1. Rail managers want the cut continued. Senator Robert F. Wagner this forenoon agreed to modify his labor bill so it will outlaw coer- cion by any labor organization in addition ‘to the present provision | banning intimidation by employers. Senator Wagner denied there is any conflict between his bill and | the policies enunciated by Presi- dent Roosevelt in the auto “strife He said the objectives Is Ended by Court DENVER, Colo., March 27. Mrs. Dorothy Paulin Griffin, for- mer Colorado University coed, has been granted an annulment in county court here of her marriage in April, 1933, to William W. Griffin. She testified it was “only a pretended marriage,” declaring she and her husband had never lived together as man and wife. Griffin is a business man of Red- wood City, Cal, a native of Hol- land and a graduate of University of Bonn, Germany. The marriage prices of third grade gasoline|{a civil war as newspapers have through alleged subsidiariea repeatedly cherged Previous Indic ON NORTHLAND FOR THIS PORT Washingt_; Glee Club Members Are Aboard for SE. Alaska Tour SEATTLE, March 27.—Loaded to capacity with passengers, the mo-| torship Northland sailed last mght’ at 9 o'clock for Southeast Alaska ports. Aboard the Northland are members of the Washington Glee Club booked for Juneau on a con- cert tour. The complete list of passengers| for Juneau, including the glee club | members, is as follows: Wilfred Casey, A. C. Smothers, A. Gair, W. Shepards, L. Stimson, H. E. Gath, H. Serwood, Eugene Osborne, Charles Crosky, H. V.I O’'Sell, Elmer lves, Roland Lamp- ing, James Starr, Robert Johnson, E. M. Sherman, Jack DeMatchants, L. W. Lawrence, Mark Rutherford, R. Hooker, Mrs, Merrill, E. Spring- er, V. Jackson, C. Doupe, J. Larson, Mrs. J. Larson, Peter Bardon, Gor- don Meals, E. Montgomery, J. L. Hastings, Mrs. J. L. Hastings, Geo. Bennett, P. Kendrick. Eleanor Hunt and Mate Are Reunited LOS ANGELES, March 27.—Af- ter crashing on the rocks of di- vorce, the marital craft of Eleanor Hunt, screen and stage acivess, and her husband, Frank G. Nolan, again is on smooth wa'e:s of love auc kisses. This was revealed when an attorney represeniing the actress in a divorce action she brought against Nolan, filed a dis- ithe National Petroleum Industry's |code for fair competition. \Insects to Survive The Standard Oil Company of California and its alleged subsl} diaries, the Signal Oil and Ga: , Company, Delaware Corporation,| nd the Signal Oil and Gas Com-| pany of California; the Associated | ©Oil Company, and forty-one indi-| viduals were previously named m; indictments charging violations of | J >->o—— Humans on Earth| STILLWATER, Okla., March 27. —Although about 700,000 species of bugs have been described and nam- ed, there doubtless are many more that never have been named, ac- cording to Prof. C. E. Sanborn, head of the Department of En- tomology at the Oklahoma A. and M. College here. In case life on the earth gradu- ally becomes extinet, the insects probably would be the last to dis- l nppcar. Prof. Sanborn believes. HOMES LAID IN WRECKAGE BY TWISTER {Lower Part of. New Or- leans Demolished by Wind in Tornadic Dip NEW ORLEANS, March 27.—The densely populated area of modest homes in lower New Orleans, was converted into a mass of twisted wreckage within the twinkling of an eye late yesterday when a tor- nado wind dipped down and scat- tered homes, automobiles and fur- niture .over a J}vo-mile sector. Twelve persons were seriously in- jured and scores were less seri- ously hurt. Fifty homes were demolished and 100 damaged by the twister. U. S. Revolution Is Plottul Declares Indiana Educator; Receives Threats of Death)| GARY, Indiana, March 27—Dr.| Willlam A. Wirt, Gary educator,| who said he had been told that some unnamed Government advis- ers were plotting a revolution, as- serted he has been threatened with death. All day yesterday the telephone in his home rang with calls from various parts of the nation. Letters are piling up, some of a congratulatory nature and some critical. One letter is signed by a “Faith- mailed from Buffalo, N. Y., and carried a death threat, the educa- tor said. WANTS INVESTIGATION ‘WASHINGTON, March 27. — A resolution for an investigation of the statement made by Dr. Will- iam A. Wirt, of Gary, Indiana, an educator, that members of the Brain Trust said they were at- tempting to overthrow the present Government, has been introduced in the House by Representative, was performed in Glandale, Culif,{missal of the suit, declaring the|ful Member of tite U. 8. A. Roya! | Alfred L. Bulwinkle. Democrat of April 19 last, couple had become recvaciled. Citizen Secret Society,” and was North Carolina. | city | | De posua Are Review States WASHINGTON, March 27.—New increase in industrial activity, fac- tory employment and payrolls is reported by the Federal Reserve Board. Steel, automobiles and textiles are named especially in. the monthly review on business and financial conditions for February and early March. A one billion dollar increase in deposits in member banks is also noted -eo HOUSE NEARS VOTE ON NEW FINANGE BILL Administration Opposed to Measure — Has Unlim- ited Possibilities ‘WASHINGTON, March 27. — A scant 22 signatures separated the House today from a vote on an- other currency expansion measure that is opposed by the Adminis- tration. Opponents of the measure known it held unlimited financing bill, contended possibilities of almost currency expansion. The measure was pigeon-holed by the House Agricultural Commit- of to William Lemke, Republican North Dakota, filed a petition force a vote. would buy up paying them with new currency, then reissue them to the farmer who will also pay them off. e o City police are Iooklng for the person or persons, who stole the Juneau Bakery truck from its front of the store, about 1 o'clock this morning. The ftruck was found wrecked just below the Alas- ka Juneau mine entrance on the Thane road where it had crashed into a telephone pole. Two suspects were lodge in the jail early today, but were later released, Chief C. J. Davis said. Tt is expected that the cul- prits will be apprehended shortly. RV 5/ HENRY MESSERSCHMIDT TO VISIT ELKS LODGES IN SOUTHEAST ALASKA CITIES To visit B. P, O. Elks lodges in cities of Southeast Alaska, as Act- ing District Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler, Henry Messerschmidf, left Juneau aboard the Norco Sunday inight. He will visit each lodge and return to Juneau within a short time. as the Frazier Farm Mortgage Re-| tee last session but Representative | Under the bill the Government | farm mortgages, | POLICE LOOKING FOR| |AUTO THIEVES WHO WRECKED BAKE TRUCK|ncsro parking place on Front Street in| ;stilutional, said an Associat- ' ed Press dispatch from Wash- |ington to The Empire today. | Delegate Dimond has intro- | duced a resolution to recall to | the floors of the Senate and ‘Hnu~e the original bill to ree- tlty the error. Expects Quick Action He expects immediate ae- tion by both Houses to that STEEL PLANTS |end but he does not think the | measure will be signed by the One Concern to Grant Ten' President until after he re- Per Cent Increase— !turns from a fishing trip to Others May Follow !Florida on which he leaves WAGE BOOST oy | today. PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 27—, The clause in the repealer that There is every indication that steel gives to the Governor of the Terri- will be the next big industry to|tory the power to pardon persons step out in the recovery parade convicted under the Prohibition with a blanket boost in wages |laws has been decided to be un~- In Cleveland. Ohio, the Corrigan constitutional and would render the McKinney Steel Company announc- | entire law invalid, the President ed a ten per cent wage increase|Was advised. For that reason he This news is interpreted as fore- |has not signed the bill. casting a general pay rise in the| Signs Election Bill steel plants throughout the land. | The President yesterday affixed A leading steel master here dis-|his signature to the bill which closed he has sent telegrams to|advances the general Territorial members of Iron and Steel election date to the second Tues- Institute outlining plans for a ten|day in September this year and per cent raise the first of next|every second year thereafter. It month without any reduction in|also advances the date for conven- the present 40-hour week. |ing the biennial sessions of the This industrialist declined to be|Alaska Legislature from March to :d for the present but added |January, beginning with 1935. he looked for other steel mak-| The bill repealing Prohibition lers to take similar action. |laws in Hawail was also signed by Heads of other leading steel com- |the President yesterday. panies refused to discuss the pro-| Beard Almost Ready | posal but indicated that such action by one company would probably re- The system of regulation and re- striction of private sale of beer, wines and hard liquors, under which the liquor business will be handled, has virtually been com- pleted in the formal discussions of the members of the Board of | {Liquor Control. All of the more MAKES ESCAPE FROM OFFICERS Members today expressed regret {at the delay being encountered, Negro Vanishes in Dark- ness with Package in but all of them were glad that |the mistake had been discovered Rain of Bullets THOMASVILLE, sult in a general upward revision land a general raise in the amount that will go into pay envelopes if the present production continues. in time to rectify it. It was be- lieved that the necessary correction would be made without delay and the measure would be ready for the President’s signature when he returned early next week. R ICASH COLE RETURNS AFTERLONG ABSENCE ; HEALTH IS IMPROVED Georgia, March | 21. — Posses dre searching for a| who attempted to extort Cash Cole, whi '$10,000 from Howard M. Hanna, 3 . Wha Dae ‘betn. SN since last summer for his health, nephew of the late Mark Hanna, returned home on the Princess who slipped out of a trap laid for Norah yesterday afternoon. Mr. { him. Cole who was in extremely poor Hanna, a prominent Cleveland. | poyieh when he left Juneayu alid Ohio, financier, visiting here, re-| recently underwent a major opera- ported to the police the threats| i, in seattle, is considerably im- that had been made upon him proved and is able to be up and when final instructions for pay-| anout ment of the money was received. | go spent considerable time in Armed officers swrrounded the| g, ihern California while he was rendezvous. away, and motored to Seattle about Hanna's chauffeur tossed a dum- | oo weeks ago to enter the hos- my package into the bushes at the pital. side of a road The negro scurried out from the | brush and siezed the package. |Rock and Dirt Slides at Coulee Dam Site; 15 Workmen Missing The police rushed the negro from all sides but the latter shook them off and darted into the dark- ness under a rain of bullets. HOSPITAL | | GRAND COULEE, March 27— NOne milljon yards of rock and dirt, |loosened by excavation, roared down Mrs. Mabel Myren, who under-ithe mountain side at the Coulee went a major operation at St.|dam site this afternoon and bury- Ann’s hospital two weeks ago, left |ing some equipment. Fifteen work= day.